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Np. 527,937. Patented Oct. 23,1894.

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ALLEN O. BRANTINGHAM, OF TOLEDO, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE NORDYKE MARMON COMPANY, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 527,937, dated October 2,3, 1894. n Application led March 27. 1894,` Serial No. 505,294. n (No model.) n n To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ALLEN C. BRANTING- HAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Toledo,in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dust-Collectors, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to the same class of dust collectors as shown and described in my applications Serial No. 490,875, filed November 14, 1893, and Serial No. 499,905, filed February 12, 1894; it differing from that shown in the last named application mainly in that aseries of hammers withmechanism for bringing them successively into operation is used, instead of a single traveling hammer which is brought successively into position to operateA upon one tube or series of tubes after another.

Said invention will be first fully described, and the novel features thereof then pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof, and on which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts, Figure 1 is a top or plan view of a dust collector embodying `my present improvements; Fig. 2, a vier.7 partly in side elevation and partly in section (with a portion of the middle broken out) as seen from the dot' ted line 2 2 in Fig. l; Fig 3, a trausversesec-I tional view on the dotted line 3 3 in Fig. 1, on an enlarged scale, and Fig. 4 a detail view similar to a portion of Fig. 2, on an enlarged i scale.

In said drawings the portions marked A represent the frame-work; B, the dust collecting tubes; C, the driving shaft; D, the hammer-operating shaft; E and F, shafts for chain belts carryingthe dust receptacles; G, said dust receptacles; H, a pivot-shaft for the hammers; I, the hammers; J, rods `for throw-` ing the hammers into and out of operative point or from any desired direction, by an air tube, as A'. Within this chamber are the shafts E F and the dust receptacles G, and in a suitable way, preferably at one end and below the floor of said chamber", is theconveyer K. y

The dust tubesB are similar to those show n in my former applications, and are of a suitable fabric through which the air under pressure may escape, while the dust is retained within them. At the bottom ends these tubes enter perforations of the plate B', which is stationary, and to which they are attached, and their open lower ends communicate with the chamber below. At the upper end. leach row of tubes is secured to a cross-bar B2, and this is suspended to a iiexible bar A2 secured `to the sides of the frame A. Where these two tubes join the cross-bar B2 they are closed by any suitable construction. These tubes are shown in rows orsets, with ten in a set; but obviously single tubes or any other number may be similarly arranged.

The main shaft C is shown as driven by a belt C from any suitable source of power.

(Not shown.) Upon this shaft is a sprocket e wheel C? which drives the chain belt O3, which passes over the idlers E and C4 back to the Vwheel C2. This chain belt is provided with projections c3, and there are spiders Ezon the shaft E, with the arms of whichsaid projections will come in contact as the chain travels. The wheel E being an idler wheel, running loosely on the shaft E, while the spiders E2 are fixedly mounted thereon, the `shaft E is only revolved when one of the projections c3 comes in contact with arms of the spiders.` Each 4movement so produced is suiicient to shift one of the dust receptacles from one row of tubes to` another. y Upon the shaft E,

sprocket wheel C5, which, through a chain belt"` O6, drives the conveyer.

The shaft D is driven from the shaft C, preferably by means of miter gears fr s, as shown most plainly in Fig. l, and is provided with a wing d extending substantially the entire roo length thereof, which wing is adapted to engage with the projecting end of each of the spring-hammer handles, in succession, and thus raise one of said hammers each time the shaft revolves, while the spring-handle of the hammer causes said hammer, when said handle escapes from said wing, to descend forcibly upon the corresponding spring-bar'A2 above which it is positioned, jarring said bar and all the tubes which are connected thereto. As will be observed by an examination of the drawings, the several parts are so arranged that the hammer is operated which is directly above the dust receptacle; and as the dust receptacle shifts position, one hammer is thrown into and another out of operative posture, as will be hereinafter more fully described. The mechanism is so proportioned that the hammer-operating shaft D will revolve severaltimes (I have found three times to be a desirable number), and thus the row of tubes receives several jars from the hammer before the mechanism isshifted to operate upon the next row. This is secured by means of the projections c3 and the arms of the spiders E2, as elsewhere explained; such arrangement permitting the shafts E and F to remain stationary for certain periods, and to have an intermitting movement.

The dust receptacles G are connected to chains G ruiming over the sprocket wheels E3 and F3, and said receptacles run on ways G2 by which they are held to proper position. Upon the ends of said receptacles in the construction shown are cams in the form of inclines g which operate the rods J, as will be presently described.

The shaft or rod H is mounted upon the framework A and serves as a pivot for the hammer-handles, over which they rock as said hammers are moved into and out of operative position.

The hammers I are mounted on spring hammer-handles which hammer-handles are mounted on the pivot rod H, and have extensions or arms l2, (preferably of stiff or rigid construction,) extending out to the opposite side of said rod from said hammers, to which the operating rods are attached. As will be best understood by an examination of Figs. l and 4, these spring hammer-handles should be inclined somewhat to one side, in order to bring the hammer directly above the set of tubes, while the dust receptacle is directly below. This is, however, a mere convenience in construction, as it is easier to obtain the proper angle to the incline g on the ends of the dust receptacle (which operate the rods J) by extending said inclines entirely across, than it would be to extend them only halt'- way across; so that the rod is raised to its highest position when in vertical line with the extreme rear side of the receptacle at the Atime in operative position, instead of when in line with its center; and so the hammer handle is inclined to one side sufficiently to bring it over the center of the tubes and the center of said dust receptacle, instead of arranging the inclines differently.

The rods J are mounted in vertical bearings in the frame-work A, and are connected at the top to the outer arms or ends of the hammer-handles. At their lower ends they have collars j which limit their downward movement, and, preferably, springs j', by which they are commonly held to the extreme limit of said downward movement. When the inclines g on the ends of the dust receptacles G pass under said rods, however, they are forced upwardly, as shown in the drawings, and thus the hammer is thrown down into position to be engaged by the wing QZ on the shaft D, and operated. When the dust receptacle is moved on, and the rod escapes from the incline, its own gravity and the springj will force it down, raising the hammer-handle out of the range or sweep of the wing CZ, and so only the hammer which is at the time operated by the incline, through its rod, is caused to operate upon and jar the dust tubes.

It will be understood that the dust re cepa tacle G which is at the time in use, tightly covers the mouths of the tube or set of tubes B, and prevents the air pressure within the chamber from operating upon such tubes, while said dust receptacle is in position over their mouths. Said tubes, being relieved from such pressure, will collapse to some extent, which in itself will dislodge a large portion of the dust, so that it will fall into the receptacle. The blows of the hammer upon the spring` support or flexible bar A2 will effectually dislodge the remainder of the dust by jarring.

The dust receptacles are inverted when they reach the end of the course and discharge the dust into the conveyer by which it is conveyed out of the machine. They are two in number, so that one may be just entering upon its work at one end as the other `is leaving it at the other end.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-e l. The combination, in a tubular dust collector, of a suitable frame-work, dust-collecting tubes mounted therein, a traveling dust receptacle arranged below said tubes, a series of hammers arranged above said tubes, and mechanism, operating from the traveling dust receptacle, for throwing the hammers successively into operative position in connection with the tube or row of tubes below which the dust receptacle is at the time positioned.

2. The combination, in a tubular dust collector, of a suitable frame-work, dust-collecting tubes mounted therein, a traveling dust receptacle under the lower ends of said tubes having a suitable cam a row of hammers pivoted above said tubes, rods connected to the outer ends of the hammer-handles and ex- IOO tending down into the path of the @am on the dust receptacle, and means for operating the hammer in position, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, in a tubular dust eollector, of a suitable frame-work, dust-collecting tubes mounted therein and suspended on spring-bars, an intermittingly traveling dust receptacle below said tubes i having a cam thereon, a series of hammers mounted upon a pivot rod above said tubes, a shaft having a wing for operating said hammers, and rods connected to the hammer-handles and extending down into the path of the cam on the dust receptacle, whereby said hammers are thrown successively into the path or 15 sweep of the wing on said shaft and thus operated, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, at Toledo, Ohio, this 22d day of March, 1894.

ALLEN o. BRANTINGHAM. [u s.] Witnesses:

RoBT. C. WHITTLESEY,

M. W. PLATT. 

